Assignment 2 - 40%: Social Media Marketing Strategy and A Proposed Strategy For SEO
Assignment 2 - 40%: Social Media Marketing Strategy and A Proposed Strategy For SEO
Assignment 2 - 40%: Social Media Marketing Strategy and A Proposed Strategy For SEO
Assignment 2 – 40%
Brief
You will be creating a Social Media Strategy (see attached template) for the small
business, non-profit or community website that you created for Assignment 1, in the
case of students that did not work with a live client, choose one company from a list
of companies below to conduct a fictional Digital Marketing Strategy. The 2nd apart
of this assignment is to create a proposed plan for the implementation of SEO –
Search engine optimisation
For the strategy to be effective, however, you must get familiar with the organization.
This includes knowing its mission statement, organizational structure, and
budget for social media.
Creating a social media strategy is the first thing one should do when planning social
media marketing plan. Without proper strategy in place one will be sucked into a
social media sinkhole with nothing to show for any efforts in this domain. All
businesses that are planning to use social media need a strategy because it
prevents misunderstandings and answers the questions why social media is relevant
to our business’ goals in the first place.
Fictional Companies
1. shorturl.at/abcT1
2. shorturl.at/hSY19
3. h4ps://www.business.umt.edu/orgs/made/docs/ShellyCakes_BusPlan.pdf
4. h4ps://www.thebalancesmb.com/business-plan-execuHve-summary-example-2948007
Part 1 – 5%
Sign up for the google analyHcs for beginners course and earn yourself a cerHficate.
https://analytics.google.com/analytics/academy/
Learn the basic features of Google Analytics including how to create an account,
implement tracking code, analyze basic reports, and set up goals and campaign
tracking.
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Part 2 – Social Media Marketing Plan – 25%
Using the social media marketing template prepare a report on the following:
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4. Analyse possible tools for use.
What categories of social media tools will you be looking at? Can you use
existing websites and tools (such as Facebook or YouTube) to accomplish
your mission? Based on the answers to the preceding questions, what are the
most appropriate tools? What are the advantages and disadvantages of
each?
5. Select the tools you will use for your business and determine why you
will use these?
Here are some examples of what your campaign plan could be:
• Gain [x amount] followers on [social media platform name]
• Sell [x amount] of [product name]
• Drive [x amount] of new leads
• Get [x amount] of signups/attendance for an event
7. Create a plan
Determine which of the above aims; chose just one you are going to
undertake and report on how you achieved your aim.
Example:
I want to increase to number of people to sign up for gym membership;
How you did this:
I created a social media advertisement and posted on to the social media tool
that my business uses.
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You may have chosen social media advertising – social media
advertising takes targeting and therefore the ability to collect leads to
potential customers to a whole new level!!
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How to submit:
References
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https://www.sendible.com/insights/social-media-campaign-template
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